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Russian missiles hammered several parts of Ukraine's capital cave in a deadly strike
“before dawn today, at least nine civilians were killed and more than 30 wounded.”
As NPR's Greg Myri reports, the attack comes as President Trump appeared to walk back and offer to help Ukraine with its air defenses. Russian ballistic missiles struck five separate parts of Kiev as explosions rang out through the night. The attacks set off multiple fires and emergency teams rescued dozens of residents from burning
and damaged department buildings. Russia has stepped up its air strikes in recent months to exploit Ukrainian shortages of air defenses against ballistic missiles. Ukraine's president, the Vladimir Zelensky, met President Trump on Tuesday and said the US was giving Ukraine a license to make its own patriot air defense missiles.
But Trump said Friday, "We're talking about it, but it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology." Greg Myri, NPR News, Kiev.
“"The UK maritime trade operations agency said today a tanker was struck by an unknown”
projectile about 11 nautical miles off the coast of Oman. The engine room was damaged, no casualties reported. The war in Iran is limiting the flow of crude oil and that has boosted profits for oil companies." Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings in its history, NPR's Camilla Damanoski
has more. If you take Shell Exxon and Chevron together, these are the three big oil companies that
reported this week, combined, they made $444 million in profit every day for the last quarter
on average. For Shell, these are the second highest quarterly earnings ever, Exxon doubled its profits compared to this time last year, and this is even though Shell and Exxon, in particular, have operations in the Middle East that are damaged or paused because of the war, but the high price of crude has more than made up for that."
NPR is Camilla Damanoski. Some European countries are calling for Spain's borders to be closed, as the country tries to deal with an influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco, Terry Shultz reports. Spanish authorities say they've turned back roughly half the people who arrived in the tiny Spanish town of Saeuta by land or sea from Morocco.
European Commission Chief, Ursula von der Leyen, says, "She's assigned officials to help Spain manage the situation, insisting the crossings must stop immediately, and that smuggling networks must be dismantled. She underscores that people entering the block must be returned quickly." Several EU governments have called for the suspension of Spanish participation in the passport
free shengen system, so that the migrants cannot travel on into other countries. The Italian government says it's temporarily closed its air and sea borders with Spain, and France announced it will step up controls at the Spanish border. For impure news, I'm Terry Shultz and Brussels. This is NPR News in Washington.
About 200 people in Nebraska ought to lose their Medicaid coverage today, according to the
health policy news outlet trade-offs, they're the first affected by new work requirements
signed into law by President Trump in his sweeping budget legislation. All states will have to comply with the new rules in January, Nebraska decided to comply now. In Colorado, a convoy of fire and police vehicles escorted the body of a fallen firefighter, more than 200 miles across the state yesterday, to honor the fifth firefighter to die
in the state's wildfires this year. Colorado Public Radio Steena Sieg reports. 43-year-old Nathan Matthews of Nebraska died July 24th, nearly a month after being injured in a large blaze near the Utah border. People gathered on overpasses and imparting lives to watch his procession pass by.
Volunteer firefighter Dennis Owen also fought the fire that trapped Matthews. People don't understand how tough this is. It's tough, pretty emotional, but it can happen to any of us. Three other firefighters died in that fire. A helicopter pilot was recently killed in a crash, responding to a different wildfire in
the state. For MPR News, I'm Steena Sieg, in Grand Junction, Colorado. After widespread condemnation, FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning a plan to sell world cup profits to private investors, including the family of President Trump's son LaJarred Kushner, he said he changed his mind after listening carefully to all the views.
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